[okfn-discuss] Open Service Definition (revisited)

Fri Aug 3 13:17:15 UTC 2007

On 7/27/07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Draft of an Open Service Definition
> ===================================
>
> An open service is one:
>
>    1. Whose data is open as defined by the open knowledge definition
> (http://opendefinition.org/) though with the exception that where the
> data is personal in nature the data need only be made available to the
> user (i.e. the owner of that account).

I think I know the answer to this one, but I want to double-check: is
this intended to exclude services which depend on third-party,
non-OKD-compliant data sources? For example, if I built a geodata
service which was otherwise completely data and source available, but
used google maps to display some data to users, would that be
compliant with the definition?

>    2. Whose source code is F/OSS and *is made available*.

Similar question: if the service uses a non-F/OSS browser plugin
(e.g., Flash) or runs on a non-F/OSS OS or system service (e.g.,
Windows or Oracle) does that prevent it from being an open service,
assuming all other aspects (source, data) are open?

Luis (struggling with these line-drawing issues myself)